Paul Rouse: What the Parable of Murt can tell us about the Dubs

When news of the Fenton retirement emerged, Murt took the day off work to mark the ending of an era and to herald maybe the dawn of a new one which in his glorious imagination would involve the Green and Red climbing the steps.

On 18 November 2024, Brian Fenton announced his retirement form inter-county football. He was seen as ‘the single greatest hindrance to Mayo winning an All-Ireland, with James McCarthy coming a close second’. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Parable: A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.

Many of the best-known parables in the bible are about animals. There’s the wolf in sheep's clothing and the serpent in the Garden of Eden and so on.